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From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.202629.29731@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:26:29 GMT
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In article <123395@linus.mitre.org>, duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes:
|> 
|> I recently attended a talk given by Steve Jobs at a Computer/Software
|> converence in Tokyo.  Steve 's talk was essentially a long advertisement
|> for the NeXT computer.  (The demo of NeXtStep was very impressive.
|> He also demonstrated real-time video with CD quality sound coming
|> off the machine's optical disk.  Sad to say it, but the Amiga has a LONG
|> way to go before it couild compete with one of those babies.)

True.  It simply cannot compete right now.  Price performance-wise,
the Amiga loses hands down, but so does the Mac, and PCs.
The Interface Builder is simply amazing.  The whole interface to the
machine is consistent.

|> Anyway, one of the questions asked after the talk was "Why doesn't the
|> NeXT use X-windows when everyone else in the Unix world is using it?"
|> Jobs's answer was 1) I don't care what everyone else in the
|> Unix world is using - NeXT only happens to use Unix because it is a
convenient
|> platform for the NeXT application software, and 2) X-windows is "brain
|> damaged" (his words).
|> 
|> Could someone explain what it is about X-windows that makes it "brain
damaged"
|> or "fatally flawed"?

I don't know about this one.  I happen to like X.  I got X going on a
NeXT here the other night, and it works fine.  Sadly, I didn't have
Motif running on it (yet 8-).  I'm going to work on that.  Actually,
I had Motif running, but remotely.

|> Duncan Thomson

			See ya, Ralph


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